VectisSaint

Not true. 3 points against a rival, especially one below you is worth more because you take away from them, especially at this end of the season. There's a reason why these games are referred to as 6 pointers and why yesterday's result was really a disaster.

Ings was 2-3 weeks, if that was based on from the injury he could be back next game. Is that likely? Probably not, but that's what Ralph said.

Suppose it was Charlie ?. Believe what you want mate, though what you say makes some, sense, not the same as what Shane alleged. Having a clause that says we only purchase if he is available for more than, say, 0 games wouldn't surprise me. Would cover situations such as what sadly happened recently.

He wasn't. Watch again. Baird was on the line, Telfer? Was ball watching, Baird realised and rushed out and tried to put a tackle in but was too late. Blaming Baird for that is just plain wrong.

Don't believe a word of it. You haven't seen the contract, nor have I. Shane's comments are bull**** in my opinion, there is no credible source for this and it.doesn't make any sense. The sooner people accept that Ings is our player the better. I understand some people don't like it but it's done.

Professionalism is exactly what Nantes are showing. If you had said they could have shown some compassion you would have had a point.

At least one thing good, Elyounoussi will struggle on the positives ?

Already played for England 12 times, won the Toulon tournament. No chance he will be as good as 16m Norwegian international though so shouldn't be in the team as far as some of the hard of thinking on here would have you believe.

Not dim at all, seems reasonable that they should have been paid the first instalment when it was due (which was probably before the plane was tragically lost). Cardiff are apparently questioning the paper work, that seems more dim. Its a terrible situation, but stalling on legit payment is bad form.

Naive, no is not a strong word in contract law. We will also have already paid a substantial instalment so technically "we don't still have the cash". Sooner some people realise we have already bought Danny Ings the better, there is no getting out of it even if we wanted to. The loan is a technicality.

But what's that got to do with Slattery? Who did we let go in January that we should have replaced and would then have been in the team instead of Slattery. Are you suggesting we should not have let Davis go and that we tried to replace him? Very odd, don't think many here will agree with that idea. As far as I can see the only players we tried to bring in and failed were a RB (the Danish guy at Genk to replace Cedric) and the striker from Brum (to replace Gabbi I suppose). Your attiitude problem is that you (appear to) criticise players for no justifiable reason, seemingly for bbeing that have come through the Academy, which is very odd for someone who claims to support Saints (I really don't know whether you do). Most Saints supporters tend to support Academy players, it is after all where mny of our club "heroes" have come from in the past (if not the Academy then our youth). Bringing through young homegrown players was once what this club was all about, with a smattering of outside superstars to make it work. Thats why Channon, Le Tissier, Holmes, the Wallaces, even Shearer, Benali, Dodd are held in high regard by true Saints supporters. Slagging off nearly every kid that comes into the team because you have a problem with thte club's transfer activity is just plain stupid, and it ****es people off. You still haven't answered who you would have played instead of Slattery on Saturday. The only option that was available seems to be Moi, who has proved once again that bringing in expensive signings doesn't work more often than it does. Flop after expensive flop. Give the kids a go is my view, most of them are certainly no worse than some of the ones that we got rid of, or even some that are still here (Long).

Just BS from one poster on here.

Seems reasonable to me getting money for his services, difference between mid League One and top League Two is not that great and working with Tisdale, Oakley and Butters is probably a lot better than Cloughie.

It wasn't of prime importance to beat Palace or Burnley, and to get points from both is OK (drawing with Palace was disappointing, while getting a point from Burnley could be seen as a bonus). But ist vital to beat Cardiff, they are the team below us and beating them will open up a gap (5 points) while losing will mean we are 1 behind, a true 6 pointer. Beating Cardiff, Fulham and Huddersfield are the most important things to do to avoid the drop. Beating Burnley and Palace would only have been important if we were targeting finishing higher than 17th. In my view Huddersfield are already down and another 3 point gap will confirm Fulham as well. We need to start to firm up the 3rd spot and beating Cardiff is the way to do that, irrespective of other games. 5 point gaps are difficult to close, and with goal difference you can make that effectively 6. I don't like the idea of must win games but Cardiff is really. We are actually pi king up points regularly now can't see Cardiff bettering us by 6 points in 12 games.

Long is only playing because Obafemi is injured. Ralph is clearly frustrated at losing Oba.

So who would you have had in the side instead? Elyounoussi? ?

Was getting good review for his second half performance. May have been lucky not to have been red carded at the start. Looked good when he came on before as well. One of the better prospects to be fair. Apart from the rash challenge doesn't look overawed unlike Johnson and initially Valery.

Hojbjerg head injury (from Palace game), Ralph said he was a doubt in the press conference. Can't believe people are surprised by his omission. Interesting to see how the team is set up, either 4 at the back with Stephens or Bednarek at RB (more likely Stephens) or 3 at the back with JWP or Slattery playing RWB. Good to see Sims on the bench, didn't he score or come close against Burnley last season? Surprised Charlie gets the nod over Gallagher. Not confident of a result today, going for 1-1, a draw would be positive for me.

Rubbish. It has nothing to do with nationality. Players qualify as homegrown in the English PL if the were trained by an English club for 3 years before the age of 21. Long was at Reading for 3 years from 2005,Davis was a Villa youth player. Cesc Fabregas qualified as homegrown. Armstrong was trained by Dundee Utd so does not qualify as homegrown.

McQueen is out for the season, ruptured ACL beginning of November, so would not have been named anyway, whether he is still with Boro or Saints. No idea whether he did return to Saints for rehab or stayed at Boro, suspect he would have come back to Saints.

nor Jack Rose, see MLT on Twitter is trying to get him a loan

Suits him

Can't loan him out if no-one wants to take him, doesn't matter what it costs. No-one seemingly is willing to take the risk.

Caceres was not a loan, he was a free agent.

Results could have been better bu the important thing is that Cardiff lost. Don't worry about Fulham winning, if we can win tomorrow we have a 6 point cushion over 18th. That's all that really matters.